climatologue

\kli.ma.tɔ.lɔɡ\

/\kli.ma.tɔ.lɔɡ\/ noun

The verdict

“climatologue” is uncommon French (frequency #59,893 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#59,893
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Scientifique qui étudie le climat.

Corpus desk

Index FR-climatologue · climatologue · French

climatologue · rank #59,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #59,893
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH climatiseurs

Nearest frequency peer: climatiseurs (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rangs de longue queue près de « climatologue »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « climatologue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for climatologue
PropertyValue
Headwordclimatologue
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kli.ma.tɔ.lɔɡ\
Letters12
Frequency rank#59,893
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « climatologue » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).climatologuetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « climatiseurs » (#59,892), « cocagne » (#59,895), « classifié » (#59,890). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « climatologue » est au #59,893. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

climatologue is uncommon French at frequency #59,893 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kli.ma.tɔ.lɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Scientifique qui étudie le climat.".

climatologue doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is climatologue, spelled C-L-I-M-A-T-O-L-O-G-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Scientifique qui étudie le climat.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how climatologue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Loin de montrer un consensus, le climatologue Fred Singer fait valoir que la science du climat ne soutient pas le pessimisme en matière de réchauffement climatique.
  2. « Vient qui veut, quel que soit son bord politique. La démarche est apartisane », présente Christophe Cassou, climatologue au CNRS et auteur du Groupe intergouvernemental du climat (Giec).

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "climatologue"?
"climatologue" is spelled C-L-I-M-A-T-O-L-O-G-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kli.ma.tɔ.lɔɡ\.
What does "climatologue" mean?
As a noun, "climatologue" means: Scientifique qui étudie le climat.
How do you pronounce "climatologue"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "climatologue" is \kli.ma.tɔ.lɔɡ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "climatologue", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list